John Lennon

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

When you’re thirty-five, you can’t take as much booze … and I always got a little violent on drink…So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it…

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust

The serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Republics abound in young civilians who believe that the laws make the city, that grave modifications of the policy and modes of living and employments of the population, that commerce, education and religion may be voted in or out; and that any measure, though it were absurd, may be imposed on a people if only you can get sufficient voices to make it a law. But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow and not lead the character and progress of the citizen; that the form of government which prevails is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it. The law is only a memorandum.

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

She was taken by surprise at quite how breathtaking the twinkle in her eyes was. She listened and watched attentively, magnetized. As butterflies danced on her lips, her own stomach felt butterflies.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.